smoke & Bloody Mirrors
chapter 4
CHAPTER 3
See I told you!” Masters suggested excitedly, looking at the set of cards found beneath their door. There is one for each of us! Look they have our names on them!”
The cards said,”WELCOME! You are to go to the BEAUTIFUL NIGHT! That club tonight! Section four is reserved for you! Hope you can make it! Exquisite delightful escorts will await your arrival, there! They will meet you there!”
“How did we get this?” Maveric asked as he looked over Masters shoulder to see, what he was talking about. His eyes nearly jumped out of his head, he closed his eyes to see if he seeing an illusion. But whenhe opened them, he still saw the card with his name on the back. He did not know what was gpoing on. Perhaps this was a trick, being played upon them. He knew the Beautiful night was the to[ of the line club. No one got in there with out an invitation from some one who was inside. It had to be a trick. Exiquisite delightful escorts, that was an agency that they had wet dreams about. They were going to get a woman from there. He was worried, none of this made sense to him.
“I do not know, all I know is we got it!” Micheal stated as he was handed his card. When he was scrutizing his card. Beside the last period there was a tiny number, that made up the dot. He still had to have his glasses on to see it, but he did see it. The markings on it looked like a computer code, he drew up his sensor. Punched in the letters and symbles there.
The sensor began to produce a set of files, the number of files was equal to the lot of them, like the cards. They had their names on them. Micheal tapped until it found his file. The file wrote up: Please put your right index finger on the sensor! In ordfer to confirm that you are indeed this person! He thought, ‘What the hell?”
Heput it down on the sensor. Then a screen appeared in the left corner. DESIRES: SEXUAL OREINTATION: GENDER WOMAN MALE HERMAPHRODITE AGE: HAIR COLOR: STYLE OF CUT: Skin tone:
FACAIL FEATURES
FORM
BREASTS
WAIST
HIPS
HAIR
CLOTHING
SHOES
DRUGS
CHEMICALS
ALCHOL
YoU SHOULD SEE THIS?” Micheal exclaimed, the details gave him the woman he desired, even down to blood type. It drew the picture of this woman. He wondered whaTr would happen, if he tried to change the details he wanted. They were held fast. He drew up another card. Put another finger on it. Nothing happened. Other than that sensor stated,”You have made your selection. Please hand this card to another one of four with you!
He bolted back from the card. How did this card know. Maybe the file was only use able by the one who was selected it. HE got the others to handle the other set of them. One of them tried to use another finger, it would not work until, he used the right one. They all made their selections. None of them ever used this service. It seemed very personal, and it expected for them to decide, before even meeting the woman this file and they composed.
“Do you know, what this means!” Maveric suggested as he looked at the woman, he was to see. He was happy, so happy. That he was crying. He might not be alive tomorrow, but by god. He was going to enjoy himself tonight.
`We have got tickets for escorts services!” Masters rejoiced, they could not afford any of this. Yet, it was happening. If any of this was real. They would be in heaven. Something about this seemed surreal.
“Do you know Who the service is?” Teba inquired, he reda about the service, they were mythical. They were unbelievable. No oen ever complained about going there. Their cost was beyond belief, as was the club. There was no way in which they could dare to dream to enter it. Yet, here were their cards. They must have been a mistake. That was the only way, that this could have happened. There was no other explaination for this. But the Exquisite Beautiful escort service confirmed that they were to have one of their pro’s. That was real, so the invit must also be real.
Top of the line pros, is who they are!” Micheal declared. He remembered one of their friends arranging for a date with one. Maveric saw her emerge from a rolls to met him, everything about her spelled class, with a great deal of shape and sway was hers and hers alone. Even he wanted to be with her. Everything about her was intoxicating. The gentle curve of her ankle in those hiheels, the sweet calve and the way those nylons held it in check
“We can`t have them met us here?” Maveric warned. Looking about the shambles of an apartment. There were five beds if you included the sofia bed, it was the only one that could accomadate two people. A wine bottle lay on its side empty on the floor. Glasses lay adhok on the floor. A couple of slices of pizza littered the floor. The computer consol was also on the floor. The mice would eat well to night.
What would they think!” Master inquired, looking forlorn at the others of his party. There was no way in which they could even dream of meeting them.
“Maybe, that’s why we are to go to Beautiful Night!” Teba suggested, he wanted to have he choose. He would give his iteeth to have it. He would. By god he would. Looking about the room where they stayed together. It looked like they had not had a credit in a good many years.
“Just, how do you think, we will be able to enter the club!” Masters inquired, looking through their clothing to find something suitable for go upscale. The shirts were wrinkled, the pants he had to pull out from under the bed. At least they looked pressed.
“None of this makes sense!” Maveric cautioned, it simply did not add up. Not at all. They had not paid for the rooms in a month and a half, their gooses were cooked. They did not have a prayer. Well, they did. Their parents disowned them, so they were here. The land lady made a deal with them. If she got their death credits, they could stay. But what happens if the army takes us, they’ll pay for the conscripts. That was good too.
There then came a knock at the door.
“Mercury, we do not have the rent! I told you that before!” Micheal declared, he looked at the door. He did not think, she had forgetten what they had told her. About it. He was afraid of what she would do.
“I do not want your money!” said a male voice behind the door.
“Do you think, she’d get Security involved in this?” Teba suggested worriedly, their credits had been used to feed themselves. They did sign a promisery note. To her, if she would allow tehm to stay eight more days. Their parents would not receive the credits, that they were to be paid, once they died. Mercury would get them.
“I have something for the club!” the voice stated, still behind the locked door.
“Right! Do you id, that will allow us to think about it!”Masters asked, still no liking any of this. There had to be an explaination for this, but what! Someone made a mistake, this was a ruse. It had to be! One hell of a ruse, to put it mildly.
“I have got that!”
“Can you show it to us?”
“Yes!”
“Just hold it to your right. You will see a small camera! It will take the information to us! So, we can be sure!”
“He is a courier!”
“Who sent you to us!”
The door slid open, A light washed the room, where they stood. The man holding fiev boxes in his hands, entered the room. Handing them, the boxes. Each had their names on them. Inside were toiletries, and a tuxedo, for each and every one. A silk shirt, silk gloves, and a tie. Dress shoes.
Teba whistled, this was too good. To be true! Way too, good.
The man set about to dress them, in these tuxedoes. Each fit as if they were made for them. Not an centimeter out anywhere. Fit like aglove.
We got these boxes, along with these tickets! And sensor cards for pros! None of this was making any sense! Could you tell us how much cost!”
“I only know about the suits! Three Quarters!”
Masters mouth dropped open. He just fell onto the couch, stunned. “Did you say three quarters!”
“I did! Sir!”
“Am I right in suspect three quarters of a billion!”
“Yes! That’s what they are worth in total!”
They opened the boxes to find tuxedos, and shoes. What is going on here!
They took them out of their boxes, tried them on. They were a perfect fit. It was as if the clothing was designed for them. They were without a flaw. They did not know as to when the escorts were to appear, they might have to spend the night in the club. Waiting for them to appear. Nothjing like this ever happedned to them. They were cybers, and they were to die tomorrow.
This they knew was a certainity. Those who were to be enducted into the army. It was not them, that hadf been done this, too. The one`s who were seemed equaly forlorn. These people could see, no reasom=n, athat they would feel that way.
They dressed in these suits. In each of these suits was a wallet, containing credits, and a card ofr the pro, they were to meet there. This club was in the red light district, there were two ways in which you could get there. One was by car, the other was by rail.
The card told them, they would not need a set of wheels. The escort was bringing their own fro themThere were four of the cybers, so. What would they need to get there. The rail was the answer. Itn would sstake four to get there.
“Four!” “Did you here me?”
“We need to take four rails.
That will take eight hours to get there.
The club will, just be a booming! When we get there!
How do the personwho arranged this! Expect us to get inside!
They did not know!
The rail was spmething, that they were not used too. It was busy, there were people that were being bumped about. There were several people there, they had to walk awaythrough h the door. They people
It was busy. Masters could not shake the feeling that this was wrong! In a whole lot of ways wrong! The amount of credits was worth more than they would be if they were dead. There was no way in which they could pay whoever for this. Unless, he or she wanted them to enjoy themselves this last eve.
It took them almost all afternoon to get there. While they were doing this. Teba talked someone into allowing him to check out the card. He slipped it into the sensor. The board lite up. He punched in the company name.
Then the sensor responded, by bringing a logo for the escort service. Than a line was written beneath it. “You have your girl! She wil be arriving at midnight. In a rolls, her escort will go inside to find you all. Is this understood!’
“Yes!”
“I was just checking to see if this was a ruse!”
“Why would someone be playing a trick on you!”
“Do not know, it just do not jive!”
“IT jives!”
“If you say, so!”
They got to the club. It stretched out for a complete city block. There were four huge doors that were presently closed. Two men and two woman stood beside the doors. The woman were beside two of them and he guys beside the other.
“Teba suggested,” Their packing!”
“How do you think they maintain order! This club is most exclusive! No one gets inside!”
Maveric walked up to the two woman, they did not even look at him, instead they looked at the ground. “Sir! You have the wrong door! Go over to Mafia and Goose!”
“Mafia!” Masters asked the smaller of the two at the other set of doors.
The larger one looked at him, and said,”I am Mafia!”
“we would like to go inside!”
“Do you have an invitation! I would like to see it! If you have it!”
“What does this look like!” Micheal suggested as he pulled out the card.
“Of course! How could we think, you did not have one!”
The two men knocked. The door slid open. Inside the place was just a jumping. Women were dressed to the nines, there were gaggles of woman in all styles of dress and dacor. Shackles and collors adorned their necks in some cases, some where stark naked as were men as well. The ones holding these people wore leather garments. It had every devisation known to man here.
Upon reshowing their cards they were escorted to section four. AS soon as they got there, a nude waitress approached, she held a tray with a sensor chip. She asked, what would you like?”
“Vermouth straight up!”
“ Spiced rum.”
“Burdon!”
“ You!”
” Vodka and black mix!”
“How would you have me? And when?”
“How about now, pupil of a chirch!”
“That can be arranged, and what about your friends!”
“What’s that going to cost!”
“It’s paid for! Right away!”
“What is going on!”
“I do not know, nor do I want to press my luck, if you understand me!”
A few minutes later she returned looking like a school student. The costume was nine out of nine. She than asked,”Fathe